{"id":4589,"date":"2008-11-04T02:24:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2008-11-04T02:24:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T02:24:25","slug":"we-make-and-watch-history-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4589","title":{"rendered":"We make and watch history: President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SafariScreenSnapz047-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> At 8pm when the polls closed in California, I was glued in front of my TV screen watching Charles Gibson.&nbsp; Just like many of the other Obama supporters in Grant Park and everywhere around the country, tears rolled down my cheeks when Gibson announced:<\/p>\n<p>ABC TV <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/playerIndex?id=6186217\">Obama&#8217;s Place in Black History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABC TV <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/playerIndex?id=6185657\">College Students Swarm White Hourse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABC TV <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/playerIndex?id=6184916\">John McCain&#8217;s Gracious Concession Speech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/05\/AR2008110500148.html?hpid=topnews\">A DAY OF TRANSFORMATION: America&#8217;s History Gives Way to Its Future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slate presents the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2203757\/\">Stats on the Race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Friedman on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/05\/opinion\/05friedman.html?pagewanted=all\"> Finishing our Work<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 8pm when the polls closed in California, I was glued in front of my TV screen watching Charles Gibson.&nbsp; Just like many of the <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4589\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SafariScreenSnapz047.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"210\" height=\"146\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}